--- In STMFC@..., Howard R Garner <cascaderail@...> wrote: "Illinois River Packet is a 1900 period car. Model Railroader had plans and a construction actical in the 50's or 60's on this. W

--- In STMFC@..., "Russ Strodtz" <sheridan@...> wrote: "While it has nothing to do with waycars, I thought the SLSF was the road that had been involved with the C&EI for many years." Russ

Jerry Michels wrote: "Do you have numbers for these wood cabooses you are interested in?" ******************************************************************** Jerry, I don't have any numbers, so far,

Jerry Michels, Thanks for your info. I went to the MPHS and ordered their MP Caboose book. Not cheap!,...but 400 pages of apparently deep-data. It says it covers the MoPac & C&EI, and their other RR's

Don, Thanks for bringing up the point about the steps. I hadn't noticed that yet and it is a very important detail factor. I went and looked at my C&O and C&EI photos and saw that difference. I know t

I bought the Trainman, "Eastern 4 Window Center Cupola Caboose", used by the C&O, PM, C&EI etc., Item #945 (undec.) It appears that the main model body is a pretty accurate rendition of the prototype,

Is there a web-site for Micro Engineering? In a Google, etc. search, I was only able to really find a WigWag.com company which appears to be only selling their parts. Thanks, Paul Hillman

In the May 1959 issue of MR there is an article about building a C&EI 41'-6" gondola. This car was shown built on a recent P:48 group. The article states that the cars were built in 1912 & 1913 by Ame

Larry, My computer won't open the file. It says, "not a valid Win32 application." I try to open in with Quattro(R) Pro 12, but it says the above. My computer is a one year old Dell, with XP. Sorry if

Looks like Speedwitch & Ted Culotta are back & doing fine and well. I received yesterday, Richard Henrickson's, "Focus on Freight Cars", book, AND my SAL decals, from Speedwitch, & Ted. Ted, the decal

I used to use white, type-writer correction tape. It may come in other colors. Lay it on the car and write anything you want with a sharp enough pencil or other object. I haven't done this for a long

Has anyone heard from Ted Culotta lately? Haven't seen him post to this list lately. I ordered their SAL decals and didn't receive them. I emailed them and have gotten no response. Hope all is well th

Ray, The Walthers, GM&O stockcar, #108051, has a reweigh date of C.R.10- 51. Would that make it an 1949 Alton car? What P2K "correct" car for 1947 are you referring to? Excuse my temporary ignorance h

Jeff, I checked out the RPI and am sending them the $8.00 for a month's access. Nehrich has presented quite a list and it should prove helpful. I've always liked his work in mag articles that he's don

Thanks Richard for that great input about Mather cars and their markings. Didn't know about that info. I'd just purchased your book today, "Focus on Freight Cars, Vol.I", through Speedwitch, and am aw

wrote: Series; ****************************************************************** Richard wrote: The Proto 2000 line was carefully researched from the outset. That's not to say that every model is 100

Marty, Well, maybe a list like that would turn out to be rather small, about which model cars were very true replicas of the prototypes. But, perhaps one (or more) of the prototype masters on this lis

Is there being a list kept/generated by anyone listing all of the currently available freight cars being produced which are accurate to the STMFC period, as they become available? I mean, when kits or

Fritz, The Atlas Trainman caboose looks very close. The CEIHS wrote, about the Athearn car: ********************************************************************* I believe it is farily close to the C&

Athearn is advertising the coming of an "Eastern 2 Window Caboose". Upon calling them, they told me that this would be released in April, 2007. It's said to be a MDC re-release? Just wondering if anyo